"Oh, Jackie. You must think I'm terrible." I think you're a woman who was in love with a wonderful man and misses him. There's nothing terrible about ...hat."She sniffed and stood back a little, examining me. I still had my hands on her waist."God, you remind me of him. Those eyes, the way you move. Jill's been so good for you. Now that you aren't so serious I can see him in you more and more. I can see you chasing her and laughing like your father did."She sniffed again, put her hands on my. That would be nice,’ she stammered. As they sat on the couch, Brian said, ‘So, Sarah says you work at a diner. That sounds…um…interesting.’ ‘No it’s not really,’ Leah said as she tried to think of something to say. Then, ‘What do you do, Brian?’ ‘Me? Oh, I’m a foreman down at Terminal 2. It’s not really very interesting. Ships come in. We get them off loaded then loaded. The leave and another arrives. It’s all very boring really.’ ‘Then you must work for the longshoreman?’ ‘No. I work for the. He was upset that I wouldn’t be able to play on the team the rest of my time at high school and told me I had just messed up a shot at a scholarship to college. I was beginning to understand why Coach had pushed me so hard at football. In the past year, I had grown to 6 feet and packed on some more muscle. Diane appreciated this but it was difficult to have a conversation with her that didn’t involve me ordering her to do something sexual. My reputation as a brawler put me in a completely. The only thing she wanted was rest, blessed respite from the kilometres of aimless procession past deserted untilled fields and abandoned livestock. If she had the opportunity, she doubted she had the strength or energy to run away. And if she should, the likelihood was that she too would be shot by pursuing guards and her corpse left unburied by the roadside.And then, as she knew it would eventually, the weariness and misery overwhelmed her. She stumbled and fell onto the ground. Her knee.